Critical current 0-π transition in designed josephson quantum dot junctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2441-2445

  Jørgensen, H Ingerslev ^a   Novotny T ^a,b   Grove Rasmussen, K ^a   Flensberg, K ^a   Lindelof, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB BLOCKADE; CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; RESONANCE;

GATE MODULATION; HIGH-ACCURACY FITTING; SUPERCURRENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 34548164874     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl071152w     Document Type: Article

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